Fariss latent variable index of repression

The index of repression/violations of physical integrity rights described in Fariss, Christopher J. 2014. "Respect for Human Rights Has Improved over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability." American Political Science Review 108 (02): 297-318. doi:doi:10.1017/S0003055414000070.

fariss

Format

An object of class tbl_df (inherits from tbl, data.frame) with 9862 rows and 18 columns.

Variable descriptions

country_name

Standardized country name. This is the same across all datasets in this package, so you can always join them by country_name and year. Character with 204 distinct values. Most common: Afghanistan (65), Albania (65), Argentina (65), Australia (65), Belgium (65), Bolivia (65), Brazil (65), Bulgaria (65), Canada (65), Chile (65), China (65), Colombia (65), Costa Rica (65), Cuba (65), Denmark (65), Dominican Republic (65), Ecuador (65), Egypt (65), El Salvador (65), Ethiopia (65), Finland (65), France (65), Greece (65), Guatemala (65), Haiti (65), Honduras (65), Hungary (65), Iceland (65), India (65), Indonesia (65), Iran (Persia) (65), Iraq (65), Ireland (65), Israel (65), Italy/Sardinia (65), Jordan (65), Korea, People's Republic of (65), Korea, Republic of (65), Lebanon (65), Liberia (65), Luxembourg (65), Mexico (65), Mongolia (65), Myanmar (Burma) (65), Nepal (65), Netherlands (65), New Zealand (65), Nicaragua (65), Norway (65), Pakistan (65), Panama (65), Paraguay (65), Peru (65), Philippines (65), Poland (65), Portugal (65), Rumania (65), Russia (Soviet Union) (65), Saudi Arabia (65), South Africa (65), Spain (65), Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (65), Sweden (65), Switzerland (65), Taiwan (65), Thailand (65), Turkey (Ottoman Empire) (65), United Kingdom (65), United States of America (65), Uruguay (65), Venezuela (65), Yemen (Arab Republic of Yemen) (66). NAs = 0.

GWn

Gleditsch-Ward numeric country code. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 990, min = 2, distinct = 204, mean = 456.466, sd = 258.091, NAs = 0.

year

Year. Numeric. Max = 2013, min = 1949, distinct = 65, mean = 1985.866, sd = 17.618, NAs = 0.

latentmean

The latent mean of the estimate. Higher values mean less repression/volations of physical integrity rights. Numeric. Max = 4.705, min = -3.112, distinct = 9862, mean = 0.291, sd = 1.366, NAs = 0.

latentsd

The standard deviation of the estimate. Numeric. Max = 0.985, min = 0.191, distinct = 9862, mean = 0.345, sd = 0.171, NAs = 0.

latentpct025

Lower bound of the 95% confidence interval. Numeric. Max = 3.075, min = -3.744, distinct = 9862, mean = -0.384, sd = 1.216, NAs = 0.

latentpct975

Higher bound of the 95% confidence interval. Numeric. Max = 6.633, min = -2.48, distinct = 9862, mean = 0.967, sd = 1.575, NAs = 0.

fariss_country

Country name in the original dataset. Character with 206 distinct values. Most common: Afghanistan (65), Albania (65), Argentina (65), Australia (65), Belgium (65), Bolivia (65), Brazil (65), Bulgaria (65), Canada (65), Chile (65), China (65), Colombia (65), Costa Rica (65), Cuba (65), Denmark (65), Dominican Republic (65), Ecuador (65), Egypt (65), El Salvador (65), Ethiopia (65), Finland (65), France (65), Greece (65), Guatemala (65), Haiti (65), Honduras (65), Hungary (65), Iceland (65), India (65), Indonesia (65), Iran (65), Iraq (65), Ireland (65), Israel (65), Italy (65), Jordan (65), Lebanon (65), Liberia (65), Luxembourg (65), Mexico (65), Mongolia (65), Myanmar (65), Nepal (65), Netherlands (65), New Zealand (65), Nicaragua (65), North Korea (65), Norway (65), Pakistan (65), Panama (65), Paraguay (65), Peru (65), Philippines (65), Poland (65), Portugal (65), Romania (65), Russia (65), Saudi Arabia (65), South Africa (65), South Korea (65), Spain (65), Sri Lanka (65), Sweden (65), Switzerland (65), Taiwan (65), Thailand (65), Turkey (65), United Kingdom (65), United States of America (65), Uruguay (65), Venezuela (65). NAs = 0.

GWc

Gleditsch-Ward alphabetic country code. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Character with 204 distinct values. Most common: AFG (65), ALB (65), ARG (65), AUL (65), BEL (65), BOL (65), BRA (65), BUL (65), CAN (65), CHL (65), CHN (65), COL (65), COS (65), CUB (65), DEN (65), DOM (65), ECU (65), EGY (65), ETH (65), FIN (65), FRN (65), GRC (65), GUA (65), HAI (65), HON (65), HUN (65), ICE (65), IND (65), INS (65), IRE (65), IRN (65), IRQ (65), ISR (65), ITA (65), JOR (65), LBR (65), LEB (65), LUX (65), MEX (65), MON (65), MYA (65), NEP (65), NEW (65), NIC (65), NOR (65), NTH (65), PAK (65), PAN (65), PAR (65), PER (65), PHI (65), POL (65), POR (65), PRK (65), ROK (65), RUM (65), RUS (65), SAF (65), SAL (65), SAU (65), SPN (65), SRI (65), SWD (65), SWZ (65), TAW (65), THI (65), TUR (65), UKG (65), URU (65), USA (65), VEN (65), YEM (66). NAs = 0.

cown

Correlates of War numeric country code. Differs from GWn for a few country-years. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Numeric. Max = 990, min = 2, distinct = 206, mean = 456.306, sd = 257.845, NAs = 0.

region

Region. Character with 22 distinct values. Most common: Eastern Africa (804), Western Africa (845), Western Asia (963). NAs = 0.

continent

Continent. Character with 5 distinct values. Most common: Africa (2699), Asia (2609), Europe (2141). NAs = 0.

GW_startdate

Date at which the state entered the system of states according to Gleditsch and Ward, or NA if it has never been a member. Other.

GW_enddate

Date at which the state ceased to be a member of the system of states according to Gleditsch and Ward, or NA if it still exists. Other.

microstate

Indicator of whether the state is a microstate, according to Gleditsch's list of microstates. Logical. TRUE = 586, FALSE = 9276, NAs = 0.

lat

Latitude. Numeric. Max = 64.963, min = -40.901, distinct = 201, mean = 19.156, sd = 24.045, NAs = 0.

lon

Longitude. Numeric. Max = 178.68, min = -175.198, distinct = 201, mean = 17.887, sd = 64.905, NAs = 0.

in_system

Whether the country-year is in the Gleditsch-Ward system of states. See Gleditsch and Ward (1999). Logical. TRUE = 9801, FALSE = 61, NAs = 0.

References

Fariss, Christopher J. 2014. "Respect for Human Rights Has Improved over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability." American Political Science Review 108 (02): 297-318. doi:doi:10.1017/S0003055414000070.

Gleditsch, Kristian S. & Michael D. Ward. 1999. "Interstate System Membership: A Revised List of the Independent States since 1816." International Interactions 25: 393-413. The list can be found at http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ksg/statelist.html

See also

Other violence: navco_2, powell_thyne